Ants interupting my project.

[STx]

Top Choice would be best but requires a license to purchase. Takes about 4 weeks to be fully effective but broadcast over the entire area you want controlled and you'll be ant free for a year.

Advion works well and isn't terribly expensive.

Bifenthrin or permethrin will both do the job as well but the residual on them is only 4 - 8 weeks, depending on the weather.

 

[TEXHORN]

Looks like fire ants. I use orange oil mixed in water to get rid of fire ants around the house and garden. Drench the m Ind with the mixture.

Depending on how strong you make it depends how long it takes to kill them. I have made it strong enough to watch them convulsed and die.

 

[MillWeld]

I have used 2 - 3 gallons of boiling water on the mound followed by augering with a hand drill down a foot or two followed by more boiling water. Maybe it just makes them move but it sure kills a lot of ants and eggs.
Bob

 

[Ford850]

I've used Bifen from this place. great price, fast free shipping, and a wide variety of products.
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[jix]

My Dear wife uses a recipe that she makes to permanently eradicate ants. Very simple, not dangerous to pets or other creatures, not expensive.

Recipe: six table spoons of borax powder, and six of sugar in enough hot water to form a slurry, well mixed.

place slurry in a number of containers with holes to admit ants but not rainwater. Place containers near ant trails or nests..and leave it alone for several weeks.

Ants will carry the mixture into their nests and eat it..and feed it to their, queen and her brood..and then they will all die. Works on all kinds of ants, including fire ants, carpenter ants, what ever. No dinkum. Ants will return from other places, however. Wife does this every summer because we live on a place where sand predominates.

Before she discovered this we had ants everwhere and in eveything. not anymore. No ants..none, now. Not sure if it works on termites, we have none of these in our cold climate... but hey, the mixture is so cheap to make you have nothing to lose by trying it...except ants!!!

Check it out.

 

[MillWeld]

Works on all kinds of ants, including fire ants, carpenter ants, what ever. No dinkum. Ants will return from other places, however.
Check it out.

You have fire ants in New Brunswick? I thought they lked only hot cilmates. They just migrated to NC only about 10 years ago.
Bob

 

[jix]

MillWeld: There are no fire ants in NB that have been discovered...yet.. We used the borax on fire ants in Bradenton, Florida, where my son lives. It worked, but the little b------rds came back a year later. He did not bother to use the borax again. He was more concerned with the poison snakes in his yard. Lovely place, huh?. Snakes killed his dog, so he moved across town after there was a street gunfight nearby between drug dealers. Borax does not work on druggies, either. **** shame about what is happening in low rent parts of Florida. My brother in law lives near Boston...and he carries a gun everywhere, poor bas---d. My daughter in law lives in Ohio, she has a big ugly guard attack dog and a black belt. I stay the **** away from insects, creeps, snakes and such, but we do have a neighborhood watch out here in the country...and shotguns, just in case. Bad folks around these parts have a lot of unexplained house fires, so landlords are very choosey on who they will rent to. Riff-raff cannot get a toehold. Not PC, but hey, its working.